 Welcome to the original gangsters podcast. I'm your host Scott Bernstein quick hitter edition and I'm going to give you an update on the highway woman motorcycle club here in Detroit, Detroit's biggest and most original motorcycle club. They started it all here in Detroit in the 1950s and although they're not the most prominent nationwide that would be the outlaws, the highway men locally are the big dogs and there's some news that's come out of highway men world over the last couple of weeks. First off, you have the sudden passing of the highway men's national president Tim Gaines. They called Mr. T was in his early 50s and he dropped dead in the middle of a weightlifting session, a workout in early October and it was laid to rest a couple of weeks ago and it was a big to do. You had highway men come from around the country. You had the FBI in the helicopters, ATF doing surveillance, but Mr. T was a beloved figure, had become president over these last couple of years and he's passed away. Highway men gave him his kind of 21 gun salute farewell, so RIP to Mr. T and then I also wanted to give an update on the release of a pretty major highway men figure, Junior Ball, Gary Junior Ball is out of prison now after about 15 years. He was the guy that was kind of in charge of all the highway men stolen vehicle rackets. He was also a proxy, a liaison for the highway men to both the Italian mafia as well as the Hispanic street gangs in Southwest Detroit. That's where the highway men's mother chapter has been since the group was founded in the 50s by Big Max Barnes. But Gary Ball, a guy that has a lot of respect across the city, Junior is now home, so welcome home to Junior Ball. Lots changed since the late 2000s when he went into prison, so let's hope he can reacclimate and RIP to Mr. T and the highway men, a national president that recently passed, want to just give you some insight into what's going on in the world of the highway men motorcycle club. I'm Scott Bernstein, OGPod, out.